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[Karl Fogel <karl.fogel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Although there are many bugs with the 'trivial' tag (see
http://tinyurl.com/nvzvpn), it can still be hard to sort through them
and pick one that will have a noticeable impact.

So, if you're looking for one, try this:

  https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/malone/+bug/325982
  "Search URL is long and hard to paste"

Basically, if this bug were fixed, I wouldn't have had to use a tinyurl
earlier :-).  This is the bug's description:

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 If you search for bugs within a project, you get a URL that looks like
 this: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/...REALLY LONG QUERY URL HERE.../

 This is a very long URL that's hard to read, and hard to paste on
 IRC. It would be great if the URL just included the search data that I
 had explicitly specified. e.g.
 https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-bazaar/+bugs?field.searchtext=cloud

 One way to do this would be to use javascript to doctor the location
 after the page has loaded.
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(This is sort of an experiment.  I'm thinking it might be good to post a
trivial-bug-of-the-week or something.  The value-add here is that a
human -- me -- has looked at the bug and knows that the 'trivial' tag is
accurate and that it's perfect for someone new to Launchpad development.
I don't have quite the right skills for this bug myself, being not very
experienced in javascript, but I can see that the bug is easy.)

Anyway, just tossing it out there.  If it looks good to you, go for it.

-K